Oz PM Julia Gillard not hurt by 'deliberately barren' taunts

Melbourne, June 25 (ANI): Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has revealed that she is not hurt by comments from political opponents about her not having children.

According to the Herald Sun, Gillard, 48, said taunts of her being childless or the comment Liberal senator Bill Heffernan made about her being "deliberately barren" and therefore unqualified to run the country, do not hurt her.

Instead, she is troubled by application of double standards - no one ever asks male MPs how they expect to represent the female half of the population.